Data · collection
Gridded, Averaged Earth Radiation Parameters from the NIMBUS-7 Earth Radiation Budget (ERB-MATRIX)
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR
The Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) instrument aboard the Nimbus-7 is to provide measurements of the radiation entering and exiting the earth-atmosphere system for climate study.
Description
The MATRIX data contains daily, cyclic (6 day), and monthly averaged ERB parameters on an approximately equal area ERB world grid (500 km x 500 km) as well as on mercator and polar stereographic map grids. The radiation parameters on MATRIX include outgoing longwave radiation, albedo, net radiation and their statistics calculated from the fixed Wide Field of View (WFOV) sensors and the Narrow Field of View (NFOV) scanner.
Both daytime (ascending node) and nighttime (descending node) data are available. The scanner failed on June 22, 1980 and the NFOV data is available only for the period November 1978 - June 1980. There is one MATRIX tape per month, beginning November 1978.
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The monthly MATRIX tapes are further processed to yield a new data product called ERB MATRIX
Summary
Tape (EMST). The EMST consists of monthly averaged world grid data extracted from the monthly MATRIX tapes. The latest EMST contains the world grid data for the period November 1978 - October 1986.
Other related data sets include: the NOAA heat budget data from AVHRR (HB/NOAA), CMATRIX from the Nimbus-7 THIR (CL/TN7), and ERBE-S9 and -S10 from ERBS and NOAA-9 and -10.
Links
Get the data
- Access to ERB MATRIX data at NCAR rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds733.0 ↗
download · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 2
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214046791-SCIOPS.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214046791-SCIOPS.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Albedo · Earth Radiation Budget Experiment · Net Radiation · Nimbus-7 · Outgoing Longwave Radiation · Solar Irradiance · Solar Radiation
Provenance · 1 source records, 13 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C1214046791-SCIOPS | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:erbe | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-radiation/albedo | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-radiation/net-radiation | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-radiation/outgoing-longwave-radiation | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-radiation/solar-irradiance | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-radiation/solar-radiation | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:nimbus-7 | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |